Tool-handle



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G. T. CULVER.

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U ITED, STATES PATENT @FFICEO GEORGE T. CULVER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

TOOL-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of ,Letters Patent No. 233,479, dated October 19, 1880.

Application filed une 19, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. OULVER, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Tool-Handles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a longitudinal section with leather handle; Fig. 2, alon gitudinal section with wood handle; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the socket; Fig. 4,a transverse section of Fig. 1; Fig. 5, a transverse section of Fig. 2.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class 'of tool-handles used for files, screw-drivers, and like implements which are provided with a tang-to be driven into the handle, and which it is convenient at times to take from the handle. Generally these handles are made from wood or other suitable material, with aferrule on the smaller end, through which the tang is introduced, with a perforation made in the handle. In driving the tang in to the handle it frequently splits the handle, and because of the necessary taper of the tang the handle easily slips from the tang, causing great inconvenience to the user.

The object of this invention is to overcome these difficulties; and it consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

1 form a socket (see Fig. 3) consisting of a head, A, of the size for the lower end of the handle, and through which is a slot or perforation, a, for the insertion of the tang of the tool. From this head two flat or other conveniently-shaped bars, B B, extend upward, so as to leave a slot, C, between them, into which the slot at opens. The width of the slot must be greater than the width of the tang to be introduced. Preferably the bars are connected by a web, D, at the upper end, from which a stud, d, extends upward through the: body part of the handle, and so as to be riv eted down onto the tip E of the handle, as' seen in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower end of the handle resting on the head A, and thus being confined between the tip and the head, it be,

(No model.)

In cases of handles made from layers or disks 6 5 of leather or other similar material, as shown in Fig. 1, the disks are cut, as seen in Fig. 4,

' with openin gsfor the bars B B, and slit between them, so that the disks may be successively placed over the bars and the material of the handle form the flexible portion into which the tang may be driven, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 4.

The use of the socket with the flexible material adapts the handle to tangs of various sizes, because, as the material readily yields to the tang driven in, it recovers its shape to a very great extent when the tang is removed and formsa new seat for the next tang. Again, the shrinkage of the handle in no wise afi'ects the socket or the flexible material it contains hence the liability to loosen is avoided.

The sockets may be made as an article of manufacture and supplied to the market, to handle-makers, or to those who prefer to make their own handles.

The socket may be made without the stud d and otherwise secured in the handle.

I am aware that a tool-handle has been made in which a metal tubular socket has been inserted in the handle and the tube filled with wood; but I am not aware that an open metal socket has been used with leather or similar flexible material in the slot or opening of the socket, whereby the said flexible material is permitted to expand outside the socket, as in this invention.

I claim- 1. The herein-described handle-socket, consisting of the slotted head A and the bars B B extending therefrom to form a slot, C, between said bars, and constructed with means,

substantially such as described, for securing material in the slot of the socket, all substanit in the handle, combined with flexible matetially as described.

rial in the slot between said bars substanl tially as described. l GEORGE CULVER' 2. A tool-handle consisting of the body of Witnesses:

the handle, the open slotted socketA B B, sei JOHN E. EARLE,

cured in the body, combined with the flexible J. H. SHUMWAY. 

